Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[benji]

While I think they want an authoritarian state if they got their way… in this case is just “Nintendo+Pokemon=Childhood=Good” rather than anything else beyond that. They probably see Nintendo and TPC as some sort of underdogs against the “adult world” of steam and tech bros stealing from artists.

Someone could posit that many online socialists are in fact of the belief that life should be like they thought their childhood was (or should have been) and that it is everyone else's duty to provide it to free them from anything resembling responsibility. Someone could point to their description of victimhood basically being childhood where everyone has no agency and nothing is their fault because they don't know any better and react emotionally with the greatest fear being a lack of "safety" perceived purely as any time discomfort happens. Someone could point to the constant adoption of new "unique" identities that share common traits which is typical for children as they attempt to discover their place in the world and with "safety" lacking how they will prefer to focus on a fantasy world over the actual thing. Someone might even look at how children are often black-and-white extreme thinkers, susceptible to emotional appeals and fallacies, are dominated by short-term thinking and focusing extensively only on the things in front of them, struggle to read social situations and perceive abstract ideas accurately, overestimate their knowledge about the world from lack of experience, are prone to read criticism as personal affront against them, etc. I won't, of course, I would never, but someone could.